Crossword-Solution: CHETS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Bartlett answered: "The unhappy creature was fine an' emperent to me 'bout a matter o' drownin' chets in the spring.

Maggot especially gave a signal and unexpected proof of a softened spirit, when, one Sunday morning, as he was getting ready for chapel, he said to his wife that it was "high time to send that little chucklehead the baby to Sunday school, for he was no better than a small heathen!" The "baby," be it observed, was about six years old at the time when this speech was made, and his _protege_ the "chet" was a great-grandmother, with innumerable chets of her own.

Like many now all but extinct tribes, who have become absorbed into greater ones, the E-cha-chets seem in Jewitt's time to have been more numerous.

The spruce is the leaves and limbs of the fir tree; their malt is made of maize, barley, oats, rye, chets, and wheat.

Children born in the month of May are called “May chets,” and kittens cast in May are invariably destroyed, for— “May chets Bad luck begets.” Another rhyme is—, “A hot May, Fat church hay,” meaning that funerals will be plenty.